Entries by Eric J. Weiner

Regardless of how the Libyan revolt plays out, in the global economy the humanitarian crisis is just one deadly aspect of the fighting. Thousands have been killed and the fabric of society has been shredded in what has become a civil war. But to the nations of Europe that have...

This week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on Scotland's decision last August to free the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi. The hearing followed a fact-finding mission to Scotland by a Senate staffer that raised more questions...

Less than two weeks ago, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average was closing above 14,000 for the first time ever, I wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times designed to offer some historical perspective on the auspicious occasion and bring a little needed skepticism to the...

Tom Friedman almost caused a fistfight at my supper table a few weeks ago.

No, I wasn't dining with the celebrated author and New York Times columnist, just my brother and his girlfriend. But during the after-dinner conversation I did share my view that based on Friedman's enthusiastic support for...

Here we are a few days before the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and ABC is preparing to air a mini-series purportedly based on the "9/11 Commission Report." But instead of simply focusing on the obvious intelligence failures that led to one of the most disastrous days...

The New York Times devoted parts of three pages in its Sunday Business section to a 3,500-word dissection of the problems at Ford, yet amazingly failed to mention even once the words at the heart of the auto industry's troubles: pensions and health...

The trouble is it doesn't remotely feel like it to many Americans. And if we don't do something about that dichotomy very soon we're going to create an economic underclass that will expose the cruel lie in our "blessed"...

Not too long ago if you were a middle class American you could feel secure in the knowledge that although healthcare costs were rising, as long as you held a steady paying job you wouldn't have to face the daunting prospect of living in this country without health insurance.

It's likely the first thing you remember hearing in your high school drivers' ed class. And it's meant as a warning. You'd better be a safe driver, because if you screw around that privilege will be taken away.

As I pointed out in an earlier post, after journalist Jill Carroll was released late last week Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz wrongheadedly questioned her first interview, which was taped by Iraqis before she was handed over to U.S. forces, and lent...

Kudos to the good people at the New York Historical Society for looking beyond the past sins of plagiarism committed by Doris Kearns Goodwin and bestowing on the prolific celebrity historian a prestigious award and $50,000 prize in honor of her recent biography of Abe Lincoln, "Team of Rivals."

Ben Domenech's rapid resignation last week from the Washington Post's Republican blog, Red America, amid accusations of plagiarism is one more sign that major media outlets have to reconsider their Republican affirmative action programs.

I know it's pretty hilarious to think about right-wingers pushing FOR affirmative action, but how...